Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-05-05
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dress of my paper to this place. where
your mother and are now staying. L
got the Retina all right last week, and
see that You are going to enlarge it. so.
have sold my hay in order to prepare.
| for the event
What is your idea for charging the
paper before the town enlarges2 OF
course am no journalist. but l have
often thought that if Ihad been doomed
to issue a paper like the Retina, and
then answer at the bar of judgment for
1t, would not get q power press till
the town got a good, dark-blue hook
and-ladder company and post-office.
Ihope you will not try to issue a.
daily paper, anyhow, till we see how
stock looks when grass grows again.
| like your editorial on MARK An.
tony first rate. can imagine how
excited the people of your town were
when they saw the Retina Saturday
morning and read what your estimate
of Mark was.
wish you would incidentally pick
upa few others of those old people and
weigh them. That is one of the luxur-
les of running paper yourself You
can speak right out and walk all over
these people. would like to hear
what your honest convictions are in re-
gard to DiOgenes. 1t would be worth.
almost what have put into your paper
! rs silent partner.
You can have no idea. Henry, how it
swells me up with pride and lofty dis
dain to know that while l am sleeping
calmly under my roof-tree. as heard
man call it once, you are showing ups
those old frauds like Julius Cesar and
Hamlet and Portcullis and Andronicus.
and Mrs. Potiphar and other people
who have become historical.
While other people are frittcrinS
away their time talking about highway
tax and boards of health and all such
stuff as that you are making red-hot
paper of to-day; paper that fairly
boils over with your honest convictions
about the political aspect at the time
that Cesar took charge Of the tribune;
Il paper that shows the average reader
that you are smart, whether you give
them the kind of stuff they want or not.
That was my idea when l sent YOU
away to that female seminary, or
whatever it was, where you went to
get educated. wanted you to come
out with whole lot of thoughts that
showed right on their face that they
were expensive. l wanted you to be-
able to tell down ut the store how
much A, Il and would each have to.
grind off circular grindstone four
feet three and One-h:1f inches in
diameter, with a square hole in the
center three and one-fourth inches
each way, provided A pays one-sixth
of the price of the stone, b One-half,
and G. the balance, with the understand
ing that c shall use five per cent. more
than his share, provided he will turn
the grind-stone. wanted you to be
able to talk with foreigners in their
own native tongue the darkest night
that ever blew. 1 desired that you
might become a man who could walk
up to an Italian as he plays his organ
voluntary beneath your easement, and
tell him in his own musical alarm
clock language what you think of him.
So it pleases me to know that you
are printing! paper now. so you can
show off to advantage what have in
vested in You.
Press right on. Keep writing up.
these over-estimated men like Moses,
and lido not care what you say pro-
vided you rise rapidly yourself, even
if you do so upon The wreck and ruin
of such men as Demosthenes and other
people whom you will. no doubt, show
up before you get through.
hope you will lead up to Column
bus and Patrick Henry in time to get
through with them little ahead of the
sheriff.
After awhile want to write little
article for your paper, not so much for
the purpose of saying any thing, but in
order to show the contrast between the
polished work of a well-educated, smart
young man and the crude efforts of a
plain man who is entirely untitled for
every thing except patelnal purposes.
We are having a good time here in
the South. enjoying the climate and
making experiments with the butter
which is produced here.
As warm weather approaches the
butter of North Carolina is-
getting its hair cut short, and can
truthfully say. Henry, that. although
am no eplcure as a general rule, L
have had my palate tickled more since
came here than ever did before.
Butter made in the Businesses of the
hills in Buncombe County is mostly
of pale pearl gray. with a pin
stripe in it of ultra-marine. This does
not look badly. and it sets off hoe
cake first-rate.
This butter is not eaten by the peo--